As soon as an old establishment is shunted aside by a new one, the new establishment's days are numbered. Its aura immediately starts to lose its shine, and another establishment, as yet unidentified, begins an ascent to replace it in turn.
And so the process continues. Favours are always traded. Nests are forever feathered. The names and faces and labels might vary, but the dynamics of power remain the same...
This is the fourth instalment of groups of 3 poems selected from my 2010
sequence of poems which takes Homer’s The Odyssey as its starting point.
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